Secrets and lies aren’t just for Mike Leigh films. If a soap opera doesn’t contain a regular heaping helping of fibs, hidden shames, and misunderstandings, it isn’t a success. The thing is, there doesn’t have to be something life-shattering like a love child or a serial killer to express drama: Coronation Street has a history of finding […]

If you had told me before I started this blog that salad would become a recurring motif in my posts, I would have been nonplussed. Yet here we are again, watching Ken mope sadly about the place because Wendy has buggered off. In an attempt to comfort his glum nephew, Uncle Albert Tatlock suggests that […]

*Malapropist Hilda, trying to tell the assembled faithful at the Rovers that she always knows what Stan is thinking The trials and tribulations of Ken Barlow continue apace during this trio of episodes which centre around the Bank Holiday street party he organises as Community Development Officer. Most of the street’s residents are mildly cynical about […]